[thewataccount]

Content spam is way easier to manage especially automatically and I don't mean with LLMs, just current tools.

The only reason why it's working right now is because the mods in charge of these subs are upset, and a few mods can shutdown a 30m+ sub. I suspect the number of users on r/aww that care _that much_ to get their account banned for spam.

If it was just users being upset (which would be the case if reddit reclaims them) I just don't think there's enough upset people for there to be an impact like that.

[ribosometronome]

How have you come to that conclusion?

Just earlier this month Reddit started having issues with follower spam -- something that was specifically a problem because it bypassed volunteer mod control and Reddit was doing a shit job taking care of it. There were tons of threads about how to turn off those notifications.

Just yesterday Musk was lamenting about how bad the bot situation on Twitter has gotten recently.

And none of that even gets into keeping content on topic for a community, just straight up spam.